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{
"etymology_text": "From Sapphic.",
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"name": "LGBT",
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"ref": "2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22",
"text": "Clinton and I became peripherally involved with a pair of Leckford Road girls who, principally sapphic in their interests, would arrange for sessions of group frolic.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Boze Hadleigh, Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way, Back Stage Books, page 194",
"text": "[...] and rumor had it that the Margo—Eve relationship was inspired by the bisexual Bankhead and her Skin of Our Teeth understudy [...] (The 1947 film version teamed Humphrey Bogart with sapphic stars Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith.)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 December 10, Jess Taylor Weissner, review of Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer, in The Courier, page 18",
"text": "Her lyrics are deeply personal and wide reaching and she weaves in indignation at the state of American politics while simultaneously exploring her identity as a black sapphic [pansexual] woman."
},
{
"ref": "2023 July 26, Susan S. Lancer, SAME/DIFFERENCE? TOWARD A SAPPHIC/NONBINARY SEXUALITY OF HISTORY, in https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hith.12319",
"text": "Perhaps the queer, unnatural, and possibly disturbing conjunctions of the trans and nonbinary sapphic can help to do just that."
}
],
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"Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lesbijski",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "лесбийски"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "sapfinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "sapfolainen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "lesbien"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "sapphisch"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "szapphói"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "Safach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "saffico"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lesbíjskij",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "лесби́йский"
}
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈsæf.ɪk/",
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},
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"rhymes": "-æfɪk"
}
],
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}
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"etymology_text": "From Sapphic.",
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"ref": "1909, The Academy and Literature",
"text": "Though they will not satisfy Mr. T. S. Omond's rules of quantity, and cannot be expected to reach Swinburne's exquisite sense of its balance, they give far more idea of the rhythm of Sappho than the body of English sapphics by other writers.",
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"ref": "2002, Michael Paschalis, Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry, Michael Paschalis, page 1",
"text": "Statius, in the Silvae, does offer two “lyric” poems, one in alcaics and one in sapphics, but lyric poetry in any form and of any consequence does not recur until the Christian hymns of St. Ambrose and Prudentius, ...",
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{
"ref": "2016 April 25, DT News [Los Angeles Downtown News], page 17",
"text": "April 29: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down host local rock sapphics Kera & the Lesbians."
}
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"etymology_text": "From Sapphic.",
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"text": "Clinton and I became peripherally involved with a pair of Leckford Road girls who, principally sapphic in their interests, would arrange for sessions of group frolic.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Boze Hadleigh, Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way, Back Stage Books, page 194",
"text": "[...] and rumor had it that the Margo—Eve relationship was inspired by the bisexual Bankhead and her Skin of Our Teeth understudy [...] (The 1947 film version teamed Humphrey Bogart with sapphic stars Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith.)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 December 10, Jess Taylor Weissner, review of Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer, in The Courier, page 18",
"text": "Her lyrics are deeply personal and wide reaching and she weaves in indignation at the state of American politics while simultaneously exploring her identity as a black sapphic [pansexual] woman."
},
{
"ref": "2023 July 26, Susan S. Lancer, SAME/DIFFERENCE? TOWARD A SAPPHIC/NONBINARY SEXUALITY OF HISTORY, in https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hith.12319",
"text": "Perhaps the queer, unnatural, and possibly disturbing conjunctions of the trans and nonbinary sapphic can help to do just that."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women."
],
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[
"Lesbian",
"lesbian"
],
[
"lesbianism",
"lesbianism"
],
[
"women",
"women"
]
],
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"not-comparable"
]
}
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},
{
"rhymes": "-æfɪk"
}
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lesbijski",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "лесбийски"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "sapfinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "sapfolainen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "lesbien"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "sapphisch"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "szapphói"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "Safach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "saffico"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lesbíjskij",
"sense": "relating to lesbianism",
"word": "лесби́йский"
}
],
"word": "sapphic"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Rhymes:English/æfɪk",
"Rhymes:English/æfɪk/2 syllables",
"en:LGBT"
],
"etymology_text": "From Sapphic.",
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{
"ref": "1909, The Academy and Literature",
"text": "Though they will not satisfy Mr. T. S. Omond's rules of quantity, and cannot be expected to reach Swinburne's exquisite sense of its balance, they give far more idea of the rhythm of Sappho than the body of English sapphics by other writers.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Michael Paschalis, Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry, Michael Paschalis, page 1",
"text": "Statius, in the Silvae, does offer two “lyric” poems, one in alcaics and one in sapphics, but lyric poetry in any form and of any consequence does not recur until the Christian hymns of St. Ambrose and Prudentius, ...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016 April 25, DT News [Los Angeles Downtown News], page 17",
"text": "April 29: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down host local rock sapphics Kera & the Lesbians."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative letter-case form of Sapphic"
],
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"rhymes": "-æfɪk"
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"word": "sapphic"
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